Kishi Bashi has just announced his new film project: Omoiyari: a Songfilm by Kishi Bashi

In the film, Kishi Bashi embarks on a personal quest by creating his music in locations relevant to the Japanese American WWII Incarceration. It is on this journey in which Kishi Bashi comes to terms with his own identity and uncovers a myriad of social issues that have gripping modern relevance. This is a film about positive social change through art, music, and empathy.

Kishi Bashi has just opened his IndieGoGo fundraising page for the film. Thank you for your support, and please spread the word!

This just in... Oneida joins the JNR Family!

We are pleased to announce that the one-and-only ONEIDA have officially joined the JNR family! Since their formation in Brooklyn, NY in 1997, the group has created some of the most fearlessly adventurous music known to man.

The band's new 2xLP album will be released early next year, but to celebrate our union with this experimental institution, we are immediately releasing a new 7" record, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.

THE TWIN, has arrived.

Performed by Sound of Ceres, produced & engineered by Alex Somers (Sigur Rós, Jónsi, Julianna Barwick) from his home-studio in Reykjavik, Iceland, The Twin is perhaps the most hauntingly fantastical album JNR has ever released.Hints of '60s exotica, '70s AM radio, and symphonic grandeur weave through layers of rippling synths and shifting rhythms, like some kind of steam-powered alien machine. It's a hypnotizing leap forward for the band.

MOUNTAIN-FUCKIN-MOVES

Maybe you've recognized, as we have, that we are simultaneously living in two worlds: one a maniacal, mainstream monoculture hell-bent on driving humankind into extinction, the other a churning underground teeming with ideas and dogged optimism and the will to thrive and survive.

We are purveyors of interesting media for a variety of artistically-honest, exploratory & often haphazard musicians. We're not your standard noise or experimental label; nor are we interested in typical indie rock or pop. We do however love when these two sides of the spectrum intersect in interesting ways. And we gravitate towards artists who, in one way or another, bridge this gap between pop and noise.

Since our first release in 2003 the label has grown a diverse roster of bands including: Kishi Bashi, WHY?, Sebadoh, Son Lux, Big Business, Joan Of Arc, Half Japanese, Surfer Blood, David Yow, and many others. We have also released a slew of limited specialty releases from bands like Melvins, Dinosaur Jr., of Montreal, Daniel Johnston, Deerhoof, etc.